Some books are to be tasted others swallowed and some to be chewed and digested.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.Francis Bacon
Friends are thieves of time.
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And Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Francis Bacon
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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